Colours books

Little Blue and Little Yellow

Little Blue and Little Yellow are best friends, but one day they can’t find each other. When they finally do, they give each other such a big hug that they turn green! How they find their true colours again concludes a wonderfully satisfying story told with colourful pieces of torn paper and very few words. Leo Lionni launched his children’s book career in 1959 with Little Blue and Little Yellow, and this 50th-anniversary edition, complete with Lionni’s own explanation of how the book came to be, is sure to resonate with children today.

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• amazon.com: https://amzn.to/42ozeoi

Pete the Cat: I Love My White Shoes

Pete the Cat goes walking down the street wearing his brand-new white shoes. Along the way, his shoes change from white to red to blue to brown to WET as he steps in piles of strawberries, blueberries, and other big messes!

But no matter what colour his shoes are, Pete keeps movin' and groovin' and singing his song...because it's all good. Pete the Cat: I Love My White Shoes asks the reader questions about the colours of different foods and objects—kids love to interact with the story.

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• amazon.com: https://amzn.to/3WNPr56

This Book Is Gray

Gray just wants to be included. But the other colours are always leaving him out. So he decides to create his own project: an all-grey book. Once upon a time, there lived a wolf, a kitten, and a hippo…

Gray just knows it’s going to be perfect. But as he adds page after page, the Primary and Secondary colours show up…and they aren’t quite so complimentary.

A book within a book, this colourful tale explores the ideas of fitting in, appreciating others, and looking at things from another perspective and also uses personality and wit to introduce basic colour concepts.

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• amazon.com: https://amzn.to/42i5mtv

Blue Hat, Green Hat

This whimsical first concept book, featuring a delightful read-aloud text that showcases animals, colours, and clothes, is sure to elicit giggles from little ones as they happily chime in on every spread with an OOPS.

BLUE HAT,
GREEN HAT,
RED HAT,
OOPS.

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• amazon.com: https://amzn.to/3NbQokA

The Day the Crayons Quit

Poor Duncan just wants to colour. But when he opens his box of crayons, he finds only letters, all saying the same thing: His crayons have had enough! They quit! Blue crayon needs a break from colouring all those bodies of water. Black crayon wants to be used for more than just outlining. And Orange and Yellow are no longer speaking—each believes he is the true colour of the sun. What can Duncan possibly do to appease all of the crayons and get them back to doing what they do best?

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• amazon.com: https://amzn.to/3MNFmR1

Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? 

A big happy frog, a plump purple cat, a handsome blue horse, and a soft yellow duck--all parade across the pages of this delightful book. Children will immediately respond to Eric Carle's flat, boldly coloured collages. Combined with Bill Martin's singsong text, they create unforgettable images of these endearing animals.

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• amazon.com: https://amzn.to/3N7w0kx

How the Crayons Saved the Rainbow 

The Sun and the Clouds are best friends. Together they keep the world warm, the gardens growing, and the sky full of beautiful rainbows. But one day they get into a fight and refuse to be in the sky together. And that means there are no longer any rainbows. Without rainbows, the colours start disappearing until Earth was left with no colour… except for one little forgotten box of crayons in one little school desk.

Determined to save the rainbows and fix the Sun and Clouds’ friendship, the crayons draw rainbows all over town. Their attempts go unnoticed. Soon they realize that they’re going to have to do something big to get the attention of their former friends. So, the crayons create the biggest rainbow they can and hope it’s enough to bring colour back to the world.

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• amazon.com: https://amzn.to/45MlOFj

Mix It Up!: Board Book Edition (Herve Tullet)

With the graphic intensity of Eric Carle, the interactive fun of Poke-a-Dot books, and the humour of The Day the Crayons Quit but with a vision all his own, Hervé Tullet invites readers to MIX IT UP in a dazzling adventure of colour and tones, filled with magic and wonder.

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• amazon.com: https://amzn.to/3C7TEaq

My First Colours: Ladybird Learners

Learn your colours with Roald Dahl's Colours, from the world's NUMBER ONE storyteller (and with some help from your favourite Dahl friends). 

Quentin Blake's iconic illustrations and a GIANT lift-the-flap will help you discover all the colours of the rainbow. 

This sturdy board book is the perfect introduction for titchy toddlers to the world of Roald Dahl - and is just right for little hands.

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• Amazon.es: https://amzn.to/2TQTr6b

• Amazon.co.uk: https://amzn.to/3aWneA6

Roald Dahl's Colours

Learn your colours with Roald Dahl's Colours, from the world's NUMBER ONE storyteller (and with some help from your favourite Dahl friends). 

Quentin Blake's iconic illustrations and a GIANT lift-the-flap will help you discover all the colours of the rainbow. 

This sturdy board book is the perfect introduction for titchy toddlers to the world of Roald Dahl - and is just right for little hands.

Links:

• Amazon.es: https://amzn.to/3aYRURk

• Amazon.co.uk: https://amzn.to/2U96v5x